Loading Events

« All Events

  • This event has passed.

Annual Toronto Workshop on Ancient Philosophy (ATWAP)

Friday March 30, 2018 - Saturday March 31, 2018

Annual Toronto Workshop on Ancient Philosophy: New Work on the Presocratics

All sessions will be held in Room 100, Department of Philosophy, Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George St. Toronto

Friday March 30

9:30 Coffee and Pastries

10:00-12:00: André Laks (Universidad Panamericana) and Glenn Most (Chicago/Pisa) “Editing the Early Greek Philosophers: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow”

Lunch Break

2:00-3:45: Tom Mackenzie (University College London), “Empedoclean Problems of the Self and the Function of the Daimonology”, Comments: Victoria Wohl (Toronto)

Coffee and Timbits

4:00-5:45: Claire Louguet (Université de Lille III), “Tragedy and Philosophy: The Prometheus Bound and Parmenides”, Comments: Matthew Watton (Toronto)

Conference Dinner

Saturday March 31:

9:00 Coffee and Pastries

9:30-11:15 Mirjam Kotwick (The New School), “Allegoresis and Analogy in the Derveni Papyrus and the Hippocratic Text On Dreams (Vict. 4)”, Comments: Marion Durand (Toronto)

Coffee break

11:30-1:15 André Laks (Universidad Panamericana), “How Preplatonic Worlds Became Ensouled”, Comments: Brad Inwood (Yale)

Lunch (Provided)

2:15-4:00 Patricia Curd (Purdue University), “What Can Parmenides Know?”, Comments: Boris Hennig (Ryerson)

Coffee Break

4:15-6:00 David Sider (NYU), “Repetitions in Empedocles”, Comments: Stephen Menn (McGill)

Conference Dinner

Participation in the conference is free (except for conference dinners), but pre-registration is required.
Contact: Rachel Barney at rachel.barney@utoronto.ca or Roberto Granieri at roberto.granieri@mail.utoronto.ca

This year’s ATWAP is funded by the Canada Research Chair cluster in Ancient Philosophy.

SHARE
Facebooktwitter

Details

Start:
Friday March 30, 2018
End:
Saturday March 31, 2018
Event Categories:
,
Event Tags:
, , , ,

Organizers

The Collaborative Specialization in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (CSAMP)
Rachel Barney

Venue

Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)
170 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario M5R 2M8 Canada
+ Google Map
Visit the venue's website
Back to Top